Review of A Letter from a Soldier

"Letter from a Soldier" opens with a soldier knocking on a door, and says he is a friend of Mrs. Wrenley's (Marjorie Main) son, who also went off to war. She lets him in, and they talk over old times, and a letter the son had sent to "Maxie Klein" (Keefe Brasselle), who for some reason was called Joe-Joe... It's only nine minutes long, but it's such a typical scene from the post-war days when some sons came home and some didn't make it. This film-let is taken from the larger film "It's a Big Country: An American Anthology", which is composed of several short episodes of various stories. This explains the LARGE list of directors on Big Country. It's entertaining, and was probably extra meaningful to the families of soldiers during that time of the Korean War, which of course was still going on when this was released (1951). Not bad. SO similar to the WW II films from the 1940's. M.Main had made this in between Ma Kettle films. Brasselle would go on to play the starring role of Eddie Cantor, but the reviews of it are not so good. This is one of the first things directed by Don Weis, and he was still directing right up to 1990.